What I've Finished Reading

I liked Among Others a lot more than I expected to like it in the beginning, which was the opposite of my experience with The Just City. Mor has to choose between joining her dead sister in the world of the fairies and going back to her living boyfriend and their book club, then finds that she's already made the choice. ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

In the end I decided to keep A Confederacy of Dunces, though I don't know why I should. The beginning is good and the last two or three pages are good and in between there are a lot of almost unbearably tedious set pieces, but I like Mrs. Reilly and Santa and the hapless old John Bircher and Darlene's boffo bird act. And ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

How Dear is Life - war comes to Europe, Philip joins the local Territorials, suffers embarrassment and shame, and is marched all over France and Belgium. At home, a familiar situation: the number of news sources has exploded, but no one knows what's true and what's false, and hardly anyone has the time to wonder in the ( Read more... )

It's been a little while since I've posted here and I'd like to apologize, if (like me under better circumstances) you look forward to reading everyone's book posts on Wednesday, for falling down on the job. There's a sort of obsolete function at the back of my mind that's still going "Wait, wait, wait a few more days, wait until things get back to ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

Donkey Boy is heartbreakingly specific and as inexplicable as childhood. Not much has changed since we last saw the Maddison family, except that there are two more children now and everyone is a little more bitten and a little more shy. Hetty tries to make Dickie happy, but he doesn't believe he can be happy and he won't ( Read more... )

What I'm Not Reading

I gave up about a third of the way through Marriage Most Scandalous by Johanna Lindsey. I decided to try a "Regency" romance for my next attempt at audiobook listening, since it was going cheap at the library book sale. Mary Sue: Vampire Sex Cop remains my most successful audiobook experiment so far, and I figured this would ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

The Dark Lantern by Henry Williamson.

( They fuck you up, your mum and dad )

What I've Finished Reading

( Feet of Clay )

What I've Finished Reading

The Masters by C. P. Snow( was not too bad )